"What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? is a 1969 American thriller film directed by Lee H. Katzin with Bernard Girard (uncredited), and starring Geraldine Page, Ruth Gordon, Rosemary Forsyth, Robert Fuller and Mildred Dunnock. The screenplay by Theodore Apstein, based on the novel ""The Forbidden Garden"" by Ursula Curtiss, focuses on an aging Arizona widow who hires elderly female housekeepers and cons them out of their money before murdering them. The music score was by Gerald Fried and the cinematography by Joseph F. Biroc. The film was funded by American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Palomar"
"Bannock (food) Bannock is a variety of flat quick bread or any large, round article baked or cooked from grain. A bannock is usually cut into sections before serving. The word ""bannock"" comes from Northern and Scots English dialects. The ""Oxford English Dictionary"" states the term stems from ""panicium"", a Latin word for ""baked dough"", or from ""panis"", meaning bread. It was first referred to as ""bannuc"" in early glosses to the 8th century author Aldhelm (d. 709), and its first cited definition in 1562. Its historic use was primarily in Ireland, Scotland and Northern England. The Scottish poet Robert"
"includes the civil parish of Bridgtown, but the rest of Cannock is unparished. Cannock forms part of the Cannock Built-up Area (population 86,121 in the 2011 census) which also includes Cheslyn Hay, Great Wyrley, Hednesford, Huntington, Heath Hayes and Wimblebury. Cannock was called Chenet in the Domesday Book of 1086. It was called Chnoc c.1130, Cnot in 1156, Canot in 1157, and Canoc in 1198. Cannock is probably Old English cnocc meaning 'hillock', modified by Norman pronunciation by the insertion of a vowel to Canoc. The name may refer to Shoal Hill, north-west of the town. Cannock was a small"
"Dornock Dornock is a small Scottish village in Dumfries and Galloway, situated about one mile west of Eastriggs and two miles east of Annan. Dornock is built on land which is 10 to 20 metres above sea level. Dornock Burn runs east of the village and the railway between Annan and Gretna is north of the village. The mud and sand banks of the Solway Firth are less than one mile away to the south. The name Dornock is either from Cumbric ""durn"" + ""-ǭg"" or Gaelic ""dòrnach"", meaning 'place of handstones (fist-sized stones)', i.e. stones used as projectiles, or"
"Mennock Mennock is a small village or hamlet which lies south-east of Sanquhar on the A76, in Dumfriesshire, in the District Council Region of Dumfries and Galloway, southwest Scotland. It original nucleus are the old smithy and corn mill with associated buildings. The site is dominated by the A76 that runs through the centre of Mennock. The village has expanded in recent years with housing on the River Nith side of the A76. The village was known as 'Minnock Bridge' in 1886 and the river was recorded as 'Minnick Water' with its source away on the north-western slope of Lowther"
"as one lot or in parcels. The Ordnance Survey Name Book for 1855-1857 records that Haining Place was a farmhouse owned by the Duke of Portland and occupied by a George Bowie. Robert Gordon's map of 1636-52 gives the name as 'Hatting' with Dullers (sic), Carnell and Sefnock (sic) located nearby along the course of the Cessnock Water with the same map symbol used to designate the status of the dwelling in each case. Joan Blaeu's map of 1654, based on the earlier circa 1604 map by Timothy Pont also names 'Hatting' with 'Dullers' located downstream on the Cessnock Water."
"the older which refers to maize bread cooked in hot ashes Likewise, Yup'ik ""alatiq"" comes from ""pancakes, fritters"". As made by Indigenous North Americans, bannock is generally prepared with white or whole wheat flour, baking powder, sugar, lard and water or milk, which are combined and kneaded (possibly with spices, dried fruits or other flavouring agents added) then fried in rendered fat, vegetable oil, or shortening, baked in an oven or cooked on a stick. Bannock is the most universal of dishes in the indigenous Canadian repertoire, and is used equally in the Arctic, Plains, Sub-arctic, and Pacific cultural areas."
"has taken over as business operations chief The company was formed by Thomas Tunnock (b.1865) as ""Tunnock's"" in 1890, when he purchased a baker's shop in Lorne Place, Uddingston. The company expanded in the 1950s, and it was at this time that the core products were introduced to the lines, when sugar and fat rationing meant that products with longer shelf-lives than cakes had to be produced. Since 2005, Tunnock's has sponsored The Tour of Mull, an annual car rally held on the Isle of Mull. In September 2010, Tunnock's workers in Uddingston, Lanarkshire, conducted two 24-hour strikes during contract"
"perhaps as cobbles. Watson suggests that the [k] in the current pronunciation may imply a Cumbric rather than Gaelic origin. It is famous for the Battle of Dornock during the Wars of Scottish Independence. Stapleton Tower house. http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/67010/details/stapleton+tower/ Dornock Dornock is a small Scottish village in Dumfries and Galloway, situated about one mile west of Eastriggs and two miles east of Annan. Dornock is built on land which is 10 to 20 metres above sea level. Dornock Burn runs east of the village and the railway between Annan and Gretna is north of the village. The mud and sand banks"
"Dumnonia Dumnonia is the Latinised name for the Brythonic kingdom in Sub-Roman Britain between the late 4th and late 8th centuries, in what is now the more westerly parts of South West England. It was centred in the area later called Devon, but included modern Cornwall and part of Somerset, with its eastern boundary changing over time as the gradual westward expansion of the neighbouring Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex encroached on its territory. The spelling Damnonia is sometimes encountered, but is also used for the land of the Damnonii, later part of the Kingdom of Strathclyde, in what is today"
"Banknock Banknock () is a village within the Falkirk council area in Central Scotland. The village is west-southwest of Falkirk, east-northeast of Kilsyth and north-northeast of Cumbernauld. Banknock is located on the Bonny Water, north of the Forth and Clyde canal and west of the A80 road near to the boundary of Falkirk and North Lanarkshire councils. At the time of the 2001 census, Banknock had a population of 2,529 residents. There were coal mines along the north side of the valley. Cannerton Pit was one of these mines and its spoil heap, locally called 'the Bing', was a local"
"Davoch The davoch, davach or daugh is an ancient Scottish land measurement. All of these terms are cognate with modern Scottish Gaelic dabhach. The word ""dabh"" or ""damh"" means an ""ox"" (cf. oxgang, ""damh-imir""), but ""dabhach"" can also refer to a ""tub"", so may indicate productivity. It was called the ""arachor"" in the Lennox. It is thought that the measurement is of Pictish origins, and is most common in the north east, and often absent in the south of Scotland. It is particularly common in various placenames to this day, often in the form ""Daugh of Invermarkie"" etc. The name"
"Davoch The davoch, davach or daugh is an ancient Scottish land measurement. All of these terms are cognate with modern Scottish Gaelic dabhach. The word ""dabh"" or ""damh"" means an ""ox"" (cf. oxgang, ""damh-imir""), but ""dabhach"" can also refer to a ""tub"", so may indicate productivity. It was called the ""arachor"" in the Lennox. It is thought that the measurement is of Pictish origins, and is most common in the north east, and often absent in the south of Scotland. It is particularly common in various placenames to this day, often in the form ""Daugh of Invermarkie"" etc. The name"
"Greenwich Mean Time. Dunsink time is mentioned five times in James Joyce's novel, ""Ulysses"". The observatory is situated on a hill 8 km northwest of Dublin's city centre, where the Astronomy section of the School of Cosmic Physics in the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies is located. Dunsink is also the site of a major unofficial Traveller encampment, the subject of considerable media coverage in 2007. Dunsink Dunsink () is a townland in the civil parish of Castleknock, Dublin, in Ireland. It is most famous for Dunsink Observatory where William Rowan Hamilton and Hermann Brück were directors. It is the"
"the collective name of the Warm Springs bands of North-Central Oregon. Also, the Oregon Steam Navigation Company operated a sternwheeler named ""Tenino"" on the Columbia River from 1860 to 1876. There are streets named ""Tenino"" in Portland, Oregon and Dallas, Texas, and two ""Tenino Avenues"", one in Los Angeles, California, and the other in Boulder, Colorado. What connection there is between these and the town, if any, is unknown. S.J McCormick's ""Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon"" (1st ed. pub. 1852) defines ""tenino"" as ""crevasse; canyon; the vulva"". No Chinook-English dictionary gives a single Chinook Jargon word for ""fork in the"
"views over the surrounding flat farmlands. The sides of the Hummock have attracted residential development to take advantage of the views. The fertility of the area is due to the volcanic soil from previous eruptions of the Hummock, which also left the local area scattered with volcanic rocks. The Hummock has been heritage listed as follows: Bundaberg Hummock The Bundaberg Hummock, also referred to as The Hummock, is an extinct volcano remnant situated in the locality of Qunaba east of Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia. Its official (but rarely used) name is Sloping Hummock. The summit of the hill holds both a"
"and Ireland (""Fir Domnann""). Later, the area became known to the English of neighbouring Wessex as the kingdom of West Wales, and its inhabitants were also known to them as ""Defnas"" (i.e. men of Dumnonia). In Welsh, and similarly in the Southwestern Brythonic languages, it was ""Dyfneint"" and this is the form which survives today in the name of the county of Devon (Modern , , ). There is evidence, based on an entry in the ""Ravenna Cosmography"", that there may have been a sub-tribe in the western part of the territory known as the Cornovii from whose name the"
"a petition earlier that year by businessmen in Portland complaining of the inconvenient location of the Washington County seat in Hillsboro and of the share of Portland tax revenues leaving the city to support Washington County farmers. County commissioners met for the first time on January 17, 1855. The county is named after the Chinookan word for the ""lower river"", Multnomah, Matlnomaq, máɬnumax̣ being interpretive English spellings of the same word. In Chinook Jargon, ""Ne-matlnomaq"", means the ""place of matlnomaq"" or the (singular) ""Ne-matlnomag"", ""the lower river"", from the Oregon City Falls toward the Columbia river. Alternatively, Chinookan máɬnumax̣ (also"
"Donna Nook Donna Nook is a point on the low-lying coast of north-Lincolnshire, England, north of the village of North Somercotes. The area, a salt marsh, is used by a number of Royal Air Force stations in Lincolnshire for bombing practice and shares its name with RAF Donna Nook. The site was also made available to commercial organisations such as BMARC for firing tests. Wildlife seem to have become accustomed to regular aircraft bombing according to The Wildlife Trust. The name is popularly supposed to be derived from a ship called ""The Donna"", part of the Spanish Armada, which sank"
"Donna Nook Donna Nook is a point on the low-lying coast of north-Lincolnshire, England, north of the village of North Somercotes. The area, a salt marsh, is used by a number of Royal Air Force stations in Lincolnshire for bombing practice and shares its name with RAF Donna Nook. The site was also made available to commercial organisations such as BMARC for firing tests. Wildlife seem to have become accustomed to regular aircraft bombing according to The Wildlife Trust. The name is popularly supposed to be derived from a ship called ""The Donna"", part of the Spanish Armada, which sank"
"was first inhabited by English settlers from the Plymouth Colony in 1628 as a trading post on the Kennebec River. The settlement was known by its Indian name—Cushnoc (or Coussinoc or Koussinoc), meaning ""head of the tide."" Fur trading was at first profitable, but with Indian uprisings and declining revenues, the Plymouth Colony sold the Kennebec Patent in 1661. Cushnoc would remain unoccupied for the next 75 years. This area was inhabited by the Kennebec Indians, a band of the larger Abenaki tribe. During the 17th century, they were on friendly terms with the English settlers in the region. A"
"Today, Selkirk bannocks are popular throughout Great Britain, and can be found at most large supermarkets. Bannock, skaan (or scone), or Indian bread, is found throughout North American Native cuisine, including that of the Inuit of Canada and Alaska, other Alaska Natives, the First Nations of the rest of Canada, the Native Americans in the United States, and the Métis. A type of bannock, using available resources, such as flour made from maize, roots, tree sap and leavening agents, may have been produced by indigenous North Americans prior to contact with outsiders, similar to modern cornbread. Some sources indicate that"
"East Chinnock East Chinnock is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated on the A30 road south west of Yeovil in the South Somerset district. The parish has a population of 479 (2011 census). The origin of the name Chinnock is uncertain. It may be derived from the Old English ""cinu"" meaning ""ravine"" or ""cinn"" meaning ""a chin shaped hill"", with the addition of ""ock"" meaning ""little"". An alternative derivation may be an old hill-name of Celtic origin. The Chinnocks were held as one estate in Saxon times by Wynflaed under Shaftesbury Abbey but by the time of"
"Hadnock Hadnock is an area of farmland and woodland in Monmouthshire, Wales, north-east of Monmouth, on the east bank of the River Wye adjoining the border with England. It is located in the parish of Dixton, in the ancient manor of Hadnock, and is accessed from the road between Wyesham and Staunton. The area is thinly populated. The main properties are Hadnock Court House, a Grade II listed building originating in the 17th century, and Little Hadnock, a small hamlet which is located a few hundred yards to the north-east. The name Hadnock may derive from English words meaning ""Hodda's"
"Chinook wind Chinook winds , or simply Chinooks, are föhn winds in the interior West of North America, where the Canadian Prairies and Great Plains meet various mountain ranges, although the original usage is in reference to wet, warm coastal winds in the Pacific Northwest. Chinook is claimed by popular folk-etymology to mean 'ice-eater', however it is the name of the people in the region where the usage was first derived. The reference to a wind or weather system, simply 'a Chinook', originally meant a warming wind from the ocean into the interior regions of the Pacific Northwest of the"
"Chinook Jargon as a trading language. Early photographs of Europeans standing for photo-ops in the distinctive Salish canoes on Long Lake show that the first nations and the Europeans coexisted in the Wellington area. Prior to 1869 a small number of settlers had established farms around Diver Lake, Long Lake and Brannen Lake. The neighbourhood had a saloon and was connected to Nanaimo by a trail. With extensive marshes and lakes, the area was frequented by Nanaimo residents for fishing and hunting. In 1869 Robert Dunsmuir discovered a thin surface seam coal on the roots of a fallen tree while"
"The Chinnocks The Chinnocks are three villages in Somerset, England, south west of Yeovil in the South Somerset district: The origin of the name Chinnock is uncertain. It may be derived from the Old English ""cinu"" meaning ""ravine"" or ""cinn"" meaning ""a chin shaped hill"", with the addition of ""ock"" meaning ""little"". An alternative derivation may be an old hill-name of Celtic origin. The three villages have been separate since at least 1066. East Chinnock and West Chinnock are some 3 km apart. Middle Chinnock is close to West Chinnock, and since 1884 has been in the civil parish of"
"Dunbartonshire, when the north-eastern shore of loch Lomond was transferred to Stirlingshire. The Lennox The Lennox (, ) is a region of Scotland centred on The Vale of Leven, including its great loch: Loch Lomond. The Gaelic name of the river is ""Leamhn"", meaning ""the smooth stream"", which anglicises to ""Leven"" (as Gaelic ""mh"" is spirantised). The surrounding area is ""the field of the smooth stream"" - ""Leamhnachd"" in Gaelic; this was originally anglicised as ""Levenauchen"" / ""Levenachs"", then softened into Levenax / Lennax, and eventually the area was known simply as ""Lennox"". Lennox was not one of the so-called"
"and materials storage area exists slightly to the south of the old depot's location. The earliest recorded version of the Mennock Water name in 1660 is 'Minnock' and the derivation may be from the Scots Gaelic 'mèineach', meaning 'abounding in ore or mines'. Eliock may originate in the Scots Gaelic 'ailcheach' meaning 'stony place'. The Leadhills and Wanlockhead Railway has named a locomotive 'Mennock' in the honour of the connection of the mines with the village. 'Mennock' is a narrow gauge locomotive that was built by Hunlset-Barclay in 1994 and was used in the tunnelling work for London Olympic Park."
"West Chinnock, now named West and Middle Chinnock. The three parishes were part of the hundred of Houndsborough. The Chinnocks The Chinnocks are three villages in Somerset, England, south west of Yeovil in the South Somerset district: The origin of the name Chinnock is uncertain. It may be derived from the Old English ""cinu"" meaning ""ravine"" or ""cinn"" meaning ""a chin shaped hill"", with the addition of ""ock"" meaning ""little"". An alternative derivation may be an old hill-name of Celtic origin. The three villages have been separate since at least 1066. East Chinnock and West Chinnock are some 3 km"
"Burns mentions bannock in his ""Epistle to James Tennant of Glenconner"", in reference to Alexander Tennant. The original bannocks were heavy, flat cakes of unleavened barley or oatmeal dough formed into a round or oval shape, then cooked on a griddle (or ""girdle"" in Scots). In Scotland, before the 19th century, bannocks were cooked on a bannock stane (Scots for stone), a large, flat, rounded piece of sandstone, placed directly onto a fire, used as a cooking surface. Most modern bannocks are made with baking powder or baking soda as a leavening agent, giving them a light and airy texture."
"of the name. The name of the town has had various spellings over time. It was printed in early Acts of Parliament as ""Grinok"", ""Greenhok"", ""Grinock"", ""Greenhoke"", ""Greinnock"", and later as ""Greinok"". Old Presbyterial records used ""Grenok"", a common spelling until it was changed to Greenock around 1700. The spelling ""Greenoak"" was found in two factory accounts dating back to 1717, and a legend developed of a green oak tree at the edge of the Clyde at William Street being used by fishermen to tie up their boats. This has been generally dismissed as imaginative folk etymology, but the image"
"American geologists as an alternative term for an inselberg or isolated mountain. Mount Monadnock is often called ""Grand Monadnock"", to differentiate it from other Vermont and New Hampshire peaks with ""Monadnock"" in their names. Its official name on federal maps is ""Monadnock Mountain"". Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Margaret Fuller visited the mountain and wrote fondly of it. Emerson was a frequent visitor, and made the mountain the subject of ""Monadnoc"", one of his most famous poems. Thoreau visited the mountain four times between 1844 and 1860, and spent a great deal of time observing and cataloging natural"